How to support student's autonomy, engagement and creativity in learning? By Oxente, Guys!

              

There are some important concepts and approaches which can help us to raise students’ autonomy, engagement and creativity in learning. Unfortunately, in Brazil, our classroom management reality is a bit far from focusing on students’ competences. Instead, our teachers are worried to cover inflexible curriculum making learning unpleasant and meaninglessness because it is concentrated on teachers.

In order to changing this reality, we need to work step by step on HOW to apply different practices making a movement from teacher centered to student centered methods. For instance, developing autonomy is a very hard work, it takes time and patience from teachers. With the help of different active techniques and short assignments that students can collaborate in groups and be less supervised, we as teachers, would be creating a new study environment and giving students the chance to be really part of the learning process.   

Besides that, the level of students’ interest would also increase when they notice that their learning style and creative way of showing what they have been learning are useful, taking into consideration that most of the time we (teachers) don´t give students the chance to show and improve their skills for real life world.

So, to be an effective agent of change, we need to implement these ideas, day by day, with possible challenges to the students with the purpose of making them more confident on the approach and more responsive their own learning process.